Company suing Apple over Passbook is funded by Microsoft and Motorola

Surprise, surprise, Apple is being sued again. A San Diego gaming and restaurant software company is suing Apple for infringing four of its patents in the new iOS 6 Passbook app.

Facebook simplifies mobile app payment with Bango carrier billing

Teaming up with Bango, Facebook is continuing its plans to make frictionless buying a reality on the social network's mobile app.

Google Wallet is reborn with support for all major credit cards

Looking to lower the barrier of entry to mobile payments, Google is making a bunch of big changes to its Google Wallet app.

The biggest shift is that the app is making a move to the cloud. Now, instead of …

Gartner: Mobile payments will top $171B this year, despite fragmentation

The current state of the mobile payment industry could at best be called slightly confounding, or, at worst, a complete mess.

But in spite of increased competition from stakeholders like Square, PayPal, Google, Mastercard, Intuit and, most recently, Verifone, the …

Why Square wants to replace TVs with tablets in New York City taxis

Almost all of New York City’s iconic yellow cabs now have a TV in the back seat playing a loop of local news and entertainment. But if innovator Jack Dorsey has his way, those taxi TVs could be replaced with …

CardSpring links coupons directly to your credit card, raises $10M

CardSpring, a company that creates mobile applications specifically for credit and debit cards, announced today it has raised $10 million in its first round of funding.

CardSpring has produced an Application Programming Interface (API) that developers can use to make …